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The aim of this paper is to find out the main determinants of the bilateral trade between the BRICS countries. The BRICS countries are fast growing, emerging markets, relatively recently known as a group that counts for more than a third of the world’s land and more than 40% of the world’s population. The augmented gravity model was used because is the model that explains most of the international bilateral trade and a panel approach was chosen to address the heteroskedasticity issues. The linear regression us...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the demographics on the economic development on the BRICS countries during 2009-2021. The BRICS countries as Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are known starting 2009 (and 2010 for South Africa respectively), they are fast growing economies, emerging markets in the second stage of demographic transition and highly heterogeneous countries in most social economic features. Due to the fact they are counting for more than 40% of the global population, the de...

Aim-This paper presents a pilot study on the application of the Best Worst Model to evaluate the teaching style and the lessons from the perspective of the secondary school students and from the perspective of their parents. The study was conducted in a secondary school from Romania, in June 2017. I used as respondents both genders, boys and girls, mothers and fathers, in almost equal proportions. Design/Methodology/Approach-Three traditional methods (Best minus Worst, the rank weights and the square root of the r...